Illustrator Round-Trip Workflow

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About This Episode

This tutorial offers a walkthrough of Catalyst’s built-in support for Illustrator-based workflow. Learn how to go from one program to another to make graphical adjustments and corrections on the fly.

In this lesson, instructor Tom Green demonstrates the powerful text and drawing functionality accessible from the Flash Catalyst toolbox. He shows how to create text boxes, accents, and a graphical scrollbar.

In this lesson, Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to optimize graphical elements for more efficient rendering with Adobe Flash player. See how you can create a more responsive user experience.

This tutorial by Adobe Community Professional Tom Green demonstrates how to introduce interactivity into Flash Catalyst projects. He shows how to work within the Interactions panel to create basic, responsive buttons and design elements.

In this lesson, Tom Green introduces the Timeline functionality in Flash Catalyst and explains how it differs from timelines in other applications. He shows how to create motion and effects between states using the Fade and Move functions.

This tutorial narrated by Tom Green provides an introduction to adding smooth transitions in Catalyst. See how to use Fade In and Fade Out functionality to transition from one image to another, using a mouse rollover as a trigger.

This tutorial by Adobe Community Professional Tom Green provides a walkthrough for creating a cohesive, browser-ready action sequence using the Catalyst Timeline, Interactions panel, and associated tools.

This tutorial by Tom Green shows how to design a data list in Adobe Fireworks and import it into Flash Catalyst. He shows how to create a standalone FXG file, and then convert its graphical assets into functional Catalyst components.

Tom Green takes the graphical data list constructed in the previous lesson and adds "dummy data" that can you can use as a placeholder for client presentations, and to which developers can connect back-end databases.

Learn about interactions, the transitions between states in your Flash Catalyst application. This video shows you how to define interactions for various components. Also learn about the most common interaction, Play Transition To State.

Learn how to create resizable applications in Flash Catalyst 5.5 that resize dynamically to fit the screen on which they’re displayed. Use constraint handles to tie objects to the bounds of the application.

Learn how to create start and end points for a sequence of actions in Flash Catalyst. This video shoes you how to set a default state for your application and add application interactions. You’ll also learn how to use the Timeline to define the order and timing of the transitions between the interactions.

See how to create a multipart scroll bar component that has a track, thumb, and buttons. Create the skin for the scroll bar and then tell Flash Catalyst which elements in the skin act as the various parts of the scroll bar component.

Discover the building blocks that you use to create buttons, sliders, data lists, and so on in Flash Catalyst. This video shows you how to use prefabricated components, or create your own by converting existing artwork.

Jacob Surber discusses the workflows available for importing graphics from Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks into a Flash Catalyst project, and suggests ways to make this process easier for developers and designers.

Watch as Flash Platform Evangelist Serge Jespers give you a Sneak Peek of Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst updates in the works that enable Flex developers to work in parallel with designers using Flash Catalyst

In this lesson, Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to optimize graphical elements for more efficient rendering with Adobe Flash player. See how you can create a more responsive user experience.

In this lesson, instructor Tom Green demonstrates the powerful text and drawing functionality accessible from the Flash Catalyst toolbox. He shows how to create text boxes, accents, and a graphical scrollbar.

This tutorial by Adobe Community Professional Tom Green demonstrates how to introduce interactivity into Flash Catalyst projects. He shows how to work within the Interactions panel to create basic, responsive buttons and design elements.

In this video you will learn a quick and easy method for cropping images in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CS5. Using clipping masks allows you to retain the area of the image you cropped out as well as modify the clipping path later on.

In this video you will learn a versatile method for cropping images in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CS5. Using opacity masks allows you to retain the area of the image you cropped out, modify the clipping path later, and use complex blending modes, transparencies, and knockout groups.